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FINGER RING.

N0. 477,825. Patented June 28, 1892.

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WITNESSES.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. RUSSELL, OF PROVIDENCE, RI-IODE ISLAND.

FINGER-RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 477,825, dated. June 28, 1892.

Application filed February 24, 1891. Serial No. 382,659. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES A. RUssELL, of the city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Detachable Heads for Finger-Rings; and I declare the following to be a specification thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Like letters indicate like parts.

Figure 1 is a view of my invention, partly in top plan and partly in section, on line :2: as of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of my invention.

My invention relates to finger-rings; and it consists of a detachable head or ornament having plane sides to form a box-like struct ore and an upper portion, either solid or perforated,in combination with a ring having on its outer or enlarged side walls or projecting plates correspondingwith the sides of said detachable head, and wherewith said detachable head is frictionally engaged and held in position, as hereinafter particularly specified.

This invention is an improvement upon and a modification of the detachable head for rings specified in my pending application for Letters Patent,Serial No. 376,521. Whereas in the device therein described the sides of the detachable ornament are provided with pins extending inwardly from the inner surface of the side walls and the corresponding walls of the ring portion have indentations to receive said pins, the partsbeing forced into such engagement by the resilience of the stock, I now dispense with said pins and indentations and construct the walls of both the ring portion and the ornamental portion with plane surfaces, so that said walls are engaged frictionally by the shutting of the sides of the ornamental part over and upon the walls of the ring portion.

In the drawings, A represents a finger-ring having an enlarged portion orhead B. Walls a project outwardly from said ring and may be rectangular, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, or in any other shape which may be desired. The cover B is detachable and has side pieces b projecting downward therefrom of such a size and shape as to correspond with and snugly fit over the outside of the walls at. These side pieces b are seen in section in Fig. 1, and are represented in Fig. 2 by the outer solid lines of the head B and the dotted lines next parallel with said solid lines. The cover B and the box-like receptacle formed by the walls a are thus held together by frictional engagement. By this construction the ornamental portion of the finger ring may be detached therefrom whenever desired or when in position thereon is held securely from accidental displacement by the frictional contact of the walls of each portion upon their adjacent surfaces. As many different head-pieces or ornaments as may be desired can thus be connected with the one ring consecutively and changed easily at will. The head B may also be provided with perforations c, which may be artistically Worked into afiligree design, and the interior space in the head may be filled with a pad saturated with a liquid perfumery, the odor of which can escape through said openings 0.

I claim'as a novel and useful invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination of the finger-ring A, hav- 

